In this wartime fable, Bruno moves with his family to an isolated house where his father has a new posting. Beyond a fence he meets Shmuel, a boy whose circumstances he does not understand. Their friendship develops across a boundary shaped by the violence of the adult world.
An immortal ruler has maintained a brutal empire for a thousand years, leaving the enslaved skaa little prospect of change. In a landscape of falling ash, the magic of Allomancy and the rulers’ enforcers shape the struggle against this seemingly permanent order.
An investigation into trafficking ends in murder, and Lisbeth Salander becomes the focus of a police hunt. As Mikael Blomkvist searches for the truth, evidence of powerful interests and Salander’s past turns the case into a confrontation with violence and buried secrets.
In Camorr, Locke Lamora leads a small band of thieves who use elaborate confidence tricks against the wealthy. The Gentlemen Bastards rely on disguises, planning and their loyalties to one another. When a violent struggle for control of the criminal underworld reaches their lives, the gang must apply its ingenuity to a threat that goes far beyond the success of its next deception.
A secret attempt to contact extraterrestrial life sets Earth on a path toward confrontation with another civilization. Across different periods of Chinese history and scientific investigation, human factions emerge with conflicting ideas about whether that encounter promises rescue or catastrophe.
When her marriage collapses, Joséphine needs a way to support her daughters. Her glamorous sister Iris proposes an arrangement: Joséphine will write a historical novel, while Iris takes the public credit. The book’s success unsettles both households and exposes the distance between appearances, ambition and affection.
A psychiatrist retreats to an island after his daughter vanishes. An unexpected visitor describes fictional characters who appear to become real, including a girl whose story echoes his daughter’s disappearance, drawing him into an unsettling search for answers.
Retired sailor Eladio Monroy accepts a job involving his former wife and her wealthy husband. What promises to be an uncomplicated favour pulls him into violence and powerful interests in Las Palmas, launching a detective career built on an outsider’s knowledge of the city.
The murder of a saxophonist in Vigo brings together the reserved inspector Leo Caldas and his outspoken assistant Rafael Estévez. Their investigation moves between jazz clubs and affluent circles, where local habits and guarded conversations make the search for truth unusually complicated.
Five stories follow adolescents at moments when familiar certainties begin to break down. Through family tensions, loss and newly discovered passions, Almudena Grandes explores the encounters that alter a young person’s direction and the uneven passage toward an independent life.
After the Spanish Civil War, refugee Joan Dolgut works as a waiter in Cannes and falls in love with Soledad Urdaneta, a wealthy Colombian’s daughter. Social barriers divide their lives, but the bond persists. Years later, their children reconstruct a concealed history that reshapes their understanding of their parents.
After Portugal’s disastrous campaign in Morocco, a wounded king and a rogue who resembles him become linked by a royal ring. Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa builds an adventure around disputed identity, survival and power. Historical gaps open space for an imagined fate for King Sebastian and the man who could replace him.
Once a city of radiant beings, Elantris has become a place of confinement for people transformed by a broken magic. A missing prince, a politically minded princess and an ambitious priest approach its mystery from opposing positions in a threatened kingdom.
With the wizarding world under growing threat, Harry returns to a Hogwarts full of suspicion. Dumbledore guides him through Voldemort’s past, while doubts about Draco Malfoy and the secrets of an old schoolbook complicate his sixth year.
The Resistance reaches Idhún, where opposition to Ashran gathers around a prophecy. Victory remains uncertain, and a new ally tests the trust between its members. In the trilogy’s second volume, Jack and Victoria must navigate divided loyalties, powerful enemies and expectations that may conceal unforeseen dangers.
In 1908, seventeen-year-old Spaniard Anita Delgado marries the Maharaja of Kapurthala and enters a life in India far removed from her upbringing. This historical novel follows the attraction and strain of that union, placing private desires within the cultural and political expectations surrounding a princely household.
Archaeologist Clara Tannenberg announces the possible discovery of clay tablets containing an ancient account connected to Abraham. Her excavation in Iraq, on the eve of war, draws together people with conflicting interests. Behind the search for the tablets lie art trafficking, vengeance and her grandfather’s concealed past.
In Nazi Germany, foster child Liesel Meminger discovers the power of words through the books she steals and learns to read. Narrated by Death, her story follows the ties she forms amid persecution and war, as acts of care and storytelling become ways to endure.
Los Angeles defence lawyer Mickey Haller runs his practice from a Lincoln Town Car. A wealthy client accused of attacking a woman offers a lucrative assignment, but the case puts Haller's understanding of evidence, his client and his own safety under pressure. This novel introduces the Mickey Haller series.
A determined DEA agent and the heirs to a Mexican drug empire become entangled in a long struggle marked by corruption and revenge. Their paths intersect with those of a priest, a sex worker and a killer across an expanding world of criminal power.